HMS Centaur

Sunk

Type	Ship of the line
Rate	Third rate
Guns	74
Wars	Seven Years' War, American War of Independence

Service

1757–1759	Centaure	France
from 1759	Centaur Captured at Lagos	Britain

74-gun ship, at Ushant in 1778, Fort Royal, the Chesapeake, St Kitts and the Saintes. Built at Toulon as the Centaure and captured at Lagos in 1759. Taking the César at the Saintes was her last fight: she foundered in the hurricane off the Grand Banks in September 1782, and her captain, John Inglefield, was one of only a dozen men saved in her pinnace.

Plate IV. A View of the Sea on the Morning after the Storm, with the distressed situation of the Centaur, Ville de Paris and the Glorieux as seen from the Lady Juliana, the Ville de Paris passing to Windward under close reef'd Topsails Print Plate IV. A View of the Sea on the Morning after the Storm Photo: John Harris; Robert Dodd; Robert Sayer and John Bennett, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

74 guns of various weights of shot

Builder	Joseph-Marie-Blaise Coulomb, Toulon Dockyard
Laid down	February 1756
Launched	17 March 1757
Commissioned	October 1757
Length	164 French feet
Complement	620 men, +6/10 officers

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.